Saudi cannot be launchpad for Iran attack: report ** A leading Saudi newspaper on Saturday ruled out any attempt by the United States to use the oil-rich Gulf kingdom as a launchpad for a possible war on Iran over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme......"Iran's supposed danger does not minimise the real danger of Israel, which is among 10 countries in the world to have nuclear weapons,"
'Filipino Monkey' may be behind radio threats, ship drivers say The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the ?Filipino Monkey.?
Iran showdown has echoes of faked Tonkin attack ** "One might've thought that they would be able to pinpoint it exactly, but it turns out that's not so," said Aftergood, who runs FAS's Project on Government Secrecy. "It's also surprising that President Bush was permitted to get so far out in front on this issue, even though there were significant uncertainties on what transpired."
Bush to reach out to Iranians from across the Gulf ** in an embarrassing climbown that was gleefully seized on by Tehran, the Pentagon admitted that a sound recording it had released of a voice threatening to blow up the US vessels may not have emanated from the Iranian vessels......."They tried to bring it up at the same time as Bush was travelling to the region to paint Iran in a bad light. But their plans fell flat,"
Objects From Iranian Boats Posed No Threat, Navy Says ** The small, boxlike objects dropped in the water by Iranian boats as they approached U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf on Sunday posed no threat to the American vessels, U.S. officials said yesterday, even as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff charged that the incident reflects Iran's new tactics of asymmetric warfare.
US army clears Abu Ghraib officer
Pentagon airs new concerns about al-Qaida
Iran Encounter Grimly Echoes ?02 War Game
Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel ** The new information that appears to contradict the original version of the incident includes the revelation that U.S. officials spliced the audio recording of an alleged Iranian threat onto to a videotape of the incident. That suggests that the threatening message may not have come in immediately after the initial warning to Iranian boats from a U.S. warship, as appears to do on the video.
US won't bring Iran 'to its knees': Khameni Mr Khamenei also told the visiting head of the United Nations nuclear agency that Iran's nuclear file should be handled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), not the UN Security Council (UNSC), which has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Tehran.
UN nuclear chief presses Iran leaders on cooperation UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei met Iranian leaders on Saturday on a visit aimed at persuading Tehran to intensify cooperation with his agency over its contested nuclear programme.
Israel stressed to Bush that Iran is a nuclear 'threat': general
About that Straits Incident? All of the Revolutionary Guard depicted in the video are wearing life jackets!!! How does that square with the neo-con notion that they?re all Islamo-fascist fanatics ready to undertake ?martyrdom? operations against the Great Satan at a moment?s notice? Judging from Norman Podhoretz, Bernard Lewis, Frank Gaffney, and their Christian Right fellow-travelers et. al., the last people you?d expect to be wearing life jackets while buzzing U.S. warships on the high seas would be the IRGC, right? Perhaps that?s why they?ve been quiet over this latest provocation.
Another Iranian Act of Aggression
Ban slams attack on UN force in Lebanon, rocket on Israel
Syrians are rebuilding bombed site: report Syrians are rebuilding a desert site bombed by the Israeli military last September on suspicions it was supposed to house a nuclear reactor, The New York Times reported on its website late Friday.
Fathers and Sons neoconservatism?s priorities, which range from strong support for Israel to vehement opposition to affirmative action, are heavily influenced by the values, interests and collective historical memory of the Jewish people.
Huckabee warns Iranian sailors: 'The next thing you will see is the gates of Hell' According to the London Times, "The crowd cheered," even though Thompson had apparently confused Iranian sailors with Al Qaeda terrorists.
Bush Fails Again by Charley Reese As occupied territories, they fall under the Geneva Conventions. An occupying power is not allowed to take land or to build settlements in occupied territory. It is not allowed to destroy homes, to uproot olive groves, to deport people, and to wall the area off ? all of which the Israelis have done and are continuing to do........the main purpose of Bush's visit is to harangue the Arabs about the alleged dangers of Iran.
Mofaz: Lebanon resolution worthless Transportation Minister Mofaz says Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended Second Lebanon War 'not worth paper it's written on'; former defense minister slams political leadership's conduct during war, says army not at fault for outcome
Turkish president to visit Egypt for Mideast, Iraq talks: official Turkish President Abdullah Gul will visit Egypt next week for talks on the faltering Middle East peace process and strife-torn Iraq, his office said Saturday
Lebanon warns Germany of possible terrorist attacks
Bush takes soundings on Iran Al-Khaleej, a UAE daily, accused him of "striving to transform the Arab-Israeli conflict into an Arab-Iranian conflict, since nuclear Israel, which is armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction, which is aggressive, expansionist, racist and an international outlaw, does not threaten world peace".
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